It’s hard to believe that we’re already halfway through our time here in San Cristobal. This has been an absolutely fantastic experience, and I’m so grateful that I was able to come and attend language school here. Thanks again to everyone for praying, supporting, and encouraging me in this endeavor.
We continue to learn a lot in school – reflexive verbs, imperfect past tense, and direct/indirect/reflexive pronouns are some of what we’ve been covering. It’s been hilarious watching our English deteriorate as we try to gain an understanding of Spanish!
Sometimes we don’t even understand each other! Learning so many different tenses has helped expand my conversational abilities a lot, and I’m making definite, though slow, progress. Sometime this week we’re going to have Nathan teach us how to share the gospel in Spanish, something I’m really looking forward to.
My teacher isn’t yet open to the gospel, but the teacher for the other class, Eduardo, is very open. Today before leaving for school we prayed as a group for opportunities to share the gospel with our teachers, and the other class was able to talk for about half an hour with Eduardo about the gospel, with him initiating the conversation and asking questions. Yasmina still isn’t open to spiritual things, and in fact today we learned that her dad is a political science teacher at a high school in Cuba. Please keep praying for both of them, and for our testimony to them as well.
Our days are overflowing with school, homework, translating, filming, and just keeping up with meals and the apartment. Everything in Mexico takes longer than expected! Last week we all got some sort of stomach bug (still trying to decide what it was), so that knocked us down for a couple of days. Several people still have some lingering/recurring effects from the bug, but hopefully we can get it taken care of soon. Please keep praying for our health!
Today we went to the home of a couple from church who invited us for lunch and to practice our Spanish/their English. It was such a neat time conversing with them, and seeing their love for the Lord and others. I really like the times when we can just sit down and converse in Spanish with people, and get some practical use out of our bookwork. Only so many verbs you can conjugate and stay sane, ya know!
I absolutely love it here, and I’m excited to see what next step the Lord has for me! I already have so many wonderful memories from this trip, and it’s being reinforced every day that missions is where God wants me. Please pray for me that I can know His will in that next step.
Filming the “My, my, mine” skit
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